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Madness Unchained - A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid (Paperback)
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Madness Unchained - A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid (Paperback)
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Madness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of
Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by
scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major
(and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides
a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this
epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury
or madness in Rome's national identity. There have been other books
that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but
this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting
nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the
Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the
professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and
the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the
poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader's
interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in
order to influence their impact on the audience, this book moves in
the order Virgil intended, and also gives rather fuller exposition
to the second half of the poem, Virgil's self-proclaimed 'greater
work' (maius opus).
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